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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: June 2021 Edition
New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time...
Could YOU help improve the CASRAI RDM terminology? Apply to the CASRAI RDMT Working Group by 30 June 2021
We are pleased to announce that the CASRAI Research Data Management Terminology Working Group is now open for applications for the 2021 review cycle. Could YOU help improve the CASRAI RDM terminology? The CASRAI Research Data Management Terminology (currently...
SAVE THE DATE: International Data Week 2022, 20–23 June 2022, Seoul, South Korea
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that International Data Week 2021 will be postponed to 20-23 June 2022 for the...
May 2021: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: SwissEnvEO: A FAIR National Environmental Data Repository for Earth Observation Open Science Author: Gregory Giuliani, Hugues Cazeaux, Pierre-Yves Burgi, Charlotte Poussin, Jean-Philippe Richard, Bruno Chatenoux URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-022 Title:On...
Building data skills: CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science–South Africa is now underway online
The CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science–South Africa is now underway! The School runs from 3 May to 9 July 2021 online, and is delivered by members of the CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science team working closely with a team of local organisers in South...
Data for Resilient Cities, a podcast series by the Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CODATA and CRDF
The Data for Resilient Cities podcast series by the Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CRDF in collaboration with CODATA was launched on 15th October 2020. New Episodes were released fortnightly, the series had 12 episodes, which took a deep dive in understanding...
Polar Data Forum IV – Call for Abstracts is NOW OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that Polar Data Forum IV will be co-hosted online by the Royal Belgian institute of Natural Sciences and the European Polar Board (EPB) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in The Hague (NL) from September 20th to...
Editor in Chief Needed for Earth and Space Science
AGU is looking for a dynamic, well-organized scientist with high editorial standards and strong leadership skills to serve a 4-year term as the editor in chief for this exciting journal. The Editor-in-Chief is the principal architect of the scientific content of the...
Workshop on Introduction to Spark with R and Lazy evaluation
Description: An interactive workshop for learning the basics of Spark in R and how to easily include lazy evaluation in a data analysis workflow. This session intends to cover the basic concepts about Spark, Map Reduce, lazy evaluation and distributed processing and...
The Role of DDI-CDI in EOSC: Discussion and Next Steps
CODATA, in partnership with the DDI Alliance, is organizing a meeting to explore the findings from "The Role of DDI-CDI in EOSC: Possible Uses and Applications," a report for the European Open Science Cloud Co-Creation Project (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4707263)...